Chapter 203: Pushing Its Limits - 203
With caution, Zhou Fan sent the message through his mortal dao for them to start expanding. If he commanded them to move at their maximum speeds, then they would be able to cover the entire galaxy they were in after about a year.
Due to his caution, however, his mortal dao would take around ten years to completely cover the galaxies. Even when he was done, there would still be galaxies free of his mortal dao's control, but he would soon be able to fix that. It would take a little bit of travel, but it was definitely doable.
Zhou Fan watched on, using his divine sense connected to his mortal dao, as the bubbles covering the worlds began to expand. He paid special attention to the Zhou galaxy's situation.
From a glance, nothing much had really changed. Despite millions of years passing, it was highly unlikely that anyone had broken through to the lesser dao creation realm.
It was simply an entirely different playing field that could not be compared to the space shattering realm. It was especially hard due to the fact that they lived within Zhou Fans mortal dao. In order to reach the lesser dao creation realm, they would have to have a deep comprehension of the cosmic dao. The requirement was 1% comprehension.
Although that number didn't seem like much, it was a giant hurdle for many of the Zhou galaxy's cultivators. Even if a cultivator did reach 1% comprehension of the cosmic dao, they would struggle to break through under Zhou Fan's mortal dao.
Within someone else's mortal dao, breaking through to the lesser dao creation realm was 5 to 10 times harder. Although Zhou Fan had broken through outside of earth, even within earth he wouldn't have had to deal with increased difficulty.
After all, the earth was not a person. Its mortal dao had been naturally formed in some unknown way.
Even if a cultivator gained 1% comprehension of the cosmic dao and successfully broke through to the lesser dao creation realm, they would not be able to create a mortal dao in the same way that Zhou Fan did.
Naturally, two mortal dao's couldn't exist in the same area. In order for someone to successfully create a mortal dao, which was a requirement before they could break through any further, they would have to create it within themselves and keep it there.
They could still use the power of their mortal dao, but they could never expand it to planets or other things unless they were outside of Zhou Fan's mortal dao.
However, if Zhou Fans mortal dao were to truly surpass the cosmic dao, that would be completely different. After all, it would evolve from a mortal dao to something else after a certain point.
Zhou Fan didn't know if that would be after it expanded throughout the whole universe or sometime before then, but if it was sometime before then he would have to keep it inside his body like the people under his mortal dao would.
One thing Zhou Fan barely noticed was that the lesser dao creation realm shouldn't have had the requirement of a mortal dao in order to progress. It seemed that when he chose to form one, the very path of cultivation changed to follow it.
That led Zhou fan to many other questions.
'What is the path to cultivation? Did it exist before me? Am I the creator of cultivation itself? What is Qi? What exactly is the cosmic dao?'
Many such questions flew by Zhou Fan's mind, but it was far too early for him to be able to answer them.
He continued to watch as his mortal dao expanded.
He could only watch about ten thousand mortal dao planets at the same time before he wasn't able to focus on them as well.
As his mortal dao started to reach about a fifth of the way through the galaxy, Zhou Fan felt a slight feeling of danger flicker through his body.
It wasn't much at all, but it clearly made its presence known. It was as if he was walking near the lair of a sleeping dragon.
Clearly, the only thing that could give off such a feeling was the cosmic dao. Although Zhou Fan didn't halt expansion or even slow it down, he paid much more attention to the cosmic dao.
After a while, his mortal dao covered around 50% of the biggest galaxies. As soon as it reached the halfway mark, he sensed more danger appearing.
If he was simply walking near the dragon's lair before, he was now standing at its entrance. Luckily, this particular dragon seemed to have a good temper.
Once again, Zhou Fan merely increased his caution and let the mortal dao continue expanding. His mortal dao continued to expand.
After five more years, his mortal dao was only a mile away from reaching the edge of the biggest galaxy any planet connected to his mortal dao was in. All the other galaxies had been completely covered and the mortal dao stopped expanding at the edge.
Zhou Fan was able to fully focus himself on this single galaxy near the center of the tree-like galaxy cluster.
As his mortal dao crept closer and closer to the final edge, he started to feel as though some sort of pressure was building up around him. If he pushed the pressure too far, it would immediately explode. This was the first time Zhou Fan felt an actual threat from the usually silently existing cosmic dao.
Clearly, he had started to push its limits. Still, he was no coward. He decided to finish what he started and let his mortal dao push towards the edge of the final galaxy.
Just as the pressure felt like it was going to explode, Zhou Fan's mortal dao reached the edge of the galaxy and he immediately stopped its expansion.
In an instant, the pressure disappeared. By now, Zhou Fan was sweating bullets. He felt a slightly similar feeling to the time when he tried to fully comprehend the cosmic dao.
He wasn't sure exactly what had happened then, but he was now sure it had something to do with the cosmic dao.
Chapter 204: Manor's Return - 204
After a moment of caution, Zhou Fan looked at the new areas of his mortal dao. Each and every one was now at least a thousand lightyears in diameter. As for the last one, it was a million lightyears in diameter.
Zhou Fan was extremely satisfied with the expansion. While it was nowhere near enough to completely form a universal consciousness, it was a much better starting place than before.
Expanding the range of his mortal dao wasn't the only thing that Zhou Fan wanted to accomplish in preparation for the true creation of the universal consciousness.
Before he actually formed it, he planned on doing a test run. He would pick a random galaxy that had his mortal dao throughout it and build a mini consciousness.
That would not only allow him to figure out how he was going to build a universal consciousness, but it would allow him to test for flaws in advance.
The mini consciousness definitely wouldn't be as strong as the universal consciousness, meaning it would not be able to do as much, but it would be a great prototype.
Zhou Fan thought of testing it out with the Zhou galaxy, but he decided to randomly pick a galaxy through the use of his mortal dao and see where that led him.
Zhou Fan connected his divine sense to his mortal dao without even bringing it out, and metaphorically spun a wheel containing all of the galaxies connected to his mortal dao.
After a moment, the chosen galaxy was revealed to be one on the edge of the tree-like galaxy cluster. It wasn't near the place where he had made the manor, but on the other side.
Despite being on the other side of the tree-like galaxy cluster, Zhou Fan would pass by the manor if he went straight. Since he was going by it, he decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to have some dinner with the animals before he continued on his journey.
Once he made up his mind, Zhou Fan shot up from his position and soared to the tree-like galaxy. His speed was ten times faster than the last time he had moved throughout the galaxy clusters.
In only a hundred years, he reached the edge of the tree-like galaxy cluster. That edge was fairly close to the galaxy where the manor resided. Zhou Fan excitedly flew forward and reached the manor in three days.
As the third day passed, he saw the manor in the distance. He flew even faster, and arrived in front of the giant block of ice in only an hour.
Once he got there, Zhou Fan first covered the entire manor in his divine sense. In just a moment, he was able to confirm that the animals were still alive and in a state of complete freeze without any sign of issue.
Zhou Fan let out a sigh of relief before he got himself ready for the next part. Despite his much higher strength, unfreezing the manor would be a somewhat difficult process.
That was because he had to do it in a very specific way so that none of the animals would die from the sudden heat or the aftereffects of being frozen.
Luckily, with his higher strength, the failure rate was nearly zero. Zhou fan focused all of his attention on the ice in front of him, before instantly heating up the entire area to an astonishing temperature.
The heat lasted less than a nanosecond, but the entire block of ice instantly unfroze. Zhou Fan was left panting while standing in space.
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Within the manor, a very stupid chicken was looking around in confusion. It was only a slight feeling, but he felt like he had just woken up from a long nap.
He thought he was going crazy for a minute, but the other animals soon poured into the yard in front of Zhou Fan's house.
"Do you all feel like you just woke up from an extremely long nap?" The chicken questioned.
"Kind of." The fox responded. "But I would describe it as a very long dream passing in an instant."
"I agree with sister fox." The butterfly said. "Her explanation seems more accurate."
The rest of the animals nodded in agreement. Ignoring the fact that his words had been rebuked, the chicken turned around and knocked on the door behind him.
"Brother Fan! Are you awake!" The chicken loudly squaked at the door.
After not receiving an answer for a while, the chicken started to feel a little worried.
"Are you ok brother Fan?! Did something happen?!" He said, his worry clearly increasing. "If you don't answer me in five seconds, I'm breaking down this door!"
"5!"
"4!"
"3!"
"2!"
"1!"
"Here I come!" The chicken said, winding up his feet for a starting boost.
Just as he was about to move, he heard a voice from above.
"I'm here, don't worry." He said as he descended from the sky.
"Brother Fan! Did you go out last night? How come you didn't take me?" The chicken asked.
Hearing his words, Zhou Fan couldn't stop himself from cracking a little smile.
"Yeah, something like that." He said.
As he touched the ground, the butterfly flew up to him and landed on his shoulder.
"Where did these new clothes come from Brother Fan?" She asked.
Only then did Zhou Fan remember that he had created new clothes for himself.
"I made them while I was outside. The old ones got destroyed somehow." He responded.
"Did something injure you?" The fox asked.
"No, the clothes just disappeared. I'm not quite sure what happened to them." Zhou Fan said, lying through his teeth.
"Who cares what happened to the clothes." The chicken said. "At least we know that brother Fan is safe and sound. I thought that something had happened when he wasn't answering the door."
Zhou Fan let out a little chuckle under his breath and walked towards the chicken. Once he reached the chicken, he instantly scooped him up and started walking towards the instruments.
"It feels like it's been a while since I played. Care to join me?" He asked with a smile.
As he and the animals started playing music, they all seemed to forget the feeling they woke up with.
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